PC 22-100-22 Main St.

Case #22-100-22 420 S. Main Street Applicant: Matt Turnbough and Monte Nordeen

S. Main Street

E. Elm Street

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Action: Rezoning Lots from C-2 to R-18/PUD

S. Noland Road

Surrounding Zonings

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Comprehensive Plan

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Background PROPERTY HISTORY: This property has been zoned C-2 (General Commercial) since 1965. The lot was developed with a 12-unit, colonial-style, office building in the 1970’s.

PROPOSAL: Matt Turnbough & Monte Nordeen intend to convert the underutilized office building located at 420 S. Main Street into a multiple-family structure. The project would eliminate a commercial lot on a block that is mostly commercial or industrial in use. Its redevelopment would renovate a vacant property providing 12 affordable apartment units at the northwest corner of Main Street and Elm Street.

The apartments would be one or two bedrooms and rent for $900 and $1,100 per month respectively. Each unit would have individual electrical meters.

A six-foot opaque fence and landscaping would buffer the building from the property to the south.

Improvements would include resurfacing the parking lot and adding green spaces. Architectural elements added would include the façades repainted white, wrought iron accents and antique gas lights. The renovated building would also have magnetic security doors and a laundry facility onsite.

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Site Plan

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Landscaping Plan

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The Property

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The Property

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Trash Enclosure

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First Floor Plan

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Second Floor Plan

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Elevations

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Elevations

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Analysis PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PROPERTY: The office building is a red brick, colonial-like structure with two-floors of tenant spaces (some with their own exterior doors). The office building is arranged with six-units on the bottom and six-units on the top.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AREA: Underutilized industrial properties lie to the west and a union hall lies to the north. All the buildings were built in recent decades. To the east and south are single-family residences, most in generally good repair and attractive in appearance. They include a mixture of late nineteenth, early twentieth and midtwentieth century construction.

Consistency with Independence for All, Strategic Plan: An objective of the City’s Strategic Plan is, ‘Building new housing units to fill a market need.’

Comprehensive Plan Guiding Land Use Principles: The Plan recommends these two properties for Residential Urban Neighborhoods. Those residential areas with nearby neighborhood retail that includes a mix of housing that provide for a diverse range of housing

Analysis types. This property is adjacent to the South Main neighborhood. A few years ago the City approved a rezoning for South Main area. This rezoning changed the zoning classification from R-12 and R-18 to R-6. The neighborhood is predominately single-family homes with a few churches and duplex and/or multifamily units sprinkled within the neighborhood.

The South Main neighborhood is identified in the Historic Preservation Master Plan. The South Main Neighborhood was originally made up of stately homes and large lots owned by Independence professionals and business owners, many of whom worked on the Independence Square. Several of these grand dwellings are individually-listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Properties at the northernmost and southernmost ends of the South Main Neighborhood have suffered the most from demolition, questionable alterations, and inappropriate infill.

The Comprehensive Plan calls for infill activity that should blend with the character of the existing neighborhood. The proposed zoning change, with its permitted uses, could have a negative impact on the character of the adjacent single-family neighborhood.

Analysis Sub-Area Plans: The site is not located within any sub-area plan areas.

Zoning: The proposed R-18/PUD (Moderate Density Residential/Planned Unit Development) zoning classification allows for two-family and multiple-family dwellings and various other uses (schools, churches, government facilities, cemeteries, home-based daycare, agriculture and others with conditions). Currently, the tract is zoned C-2 (General Commercial) which allows for retail, office, restaurants, banks, business and personal improvement services, hotels, construction services, daycare centers, nursing homes, government facilities, churches, employment agencies, funeral and interment services, schools, colleges and universities, veterinary and animal boarding services, sports and entertainment facilities, medical services, repair services and crop agriculture.

Historic and Archeological Sites: There are no apparent historic/archeological issues with this property.

Floodplain/Stream Buffer: There is not a floodplain or Stream Buffer zone present on the property.

Analysis Public Utilities: All utility services are adjacent to the property and are operational.

Landscaping: The office building and its front and rear parking lot set against the southern property line, so most of the existing green space, including existing trees, lie on the northern side of the lot. The applicant purposes to the south. The same style of fencing will provide a degree of privacy from the commercial structures to the north. The front parking lot will be redefined with additional landscaping islands, an additional street tree, and a monument sign.

Also proposed on the Preliminary Development Plan is a strip of landscaping along the length of the rear (west) parking lot that softens the existing masonry walls that belongs to the industrial properties to the west. To the north and to the rear of the property, the trash enclosure with landscaping and with a roof and cupola to match the rebuilt one on the main structure. A new feature includes the barbecue/picnic area designed to accommodate the rental occupants in a landscaped open area near a grove of large trees. At the final development plan stage staff will ensure compliance with the UDO’s landscaping requirements.

Analysis Public Improvements: No public improvements would be required.

CIP Investments: The City does not have any capital improvements planned near this site.

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Staff recommends approval of this Rezoning/Preliminary Development Plan with the following conditions.

1.Development shall be in accordance with the Premilitary Development Plan dated January 5, 2023; 2.That the applicant obtain all appropriate building permits required by City Code.